2. The Anti-Semitism Reality?

There's much hate toward people that were/are Jewish. I don't use the term, "the Jews", nor the Jewish people, because these collectives are not existential, they are instrumentalized to further hate.

There are people that choose Judaism or were born into it. But they can also opt out of it.

I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH ANTI-SEMITISM FROM MANY DIFFERENT ANGLES.

I don't know if I can do it? This will be the start of a series that will expand, (even over the year). When some new circumstances becomes evident, I will try to write about it.

The culmination of hatred is the Holocaust. Out of 60 million deaths in WWII, 6 million are said to have been Jewish. I do not intend to investigate anything about the Holocaust. Millions were killed in an extermination factory.

Why do some people "hate", some other group of people? I can't answer that.

Somehow there is a difference that is not acceptable.
It must be a cultural difference in their stereotype of behavior.
Are they "doing something" that I can't abide with.
I must see that somehow the other behavior damages me and my fellows.
Maybe they outright oppress me.
Maybe they take things from me, or make war on my group.
Maybe my country's elite lost their commercial enterprise to them?
Do they want to build a story against them, evict them, and get back their power?
(Not unlike today's media vilifying certain groups.)
Or maybe it is me that takes things from them, or wants to, and makes war?
Maybe they disrespect me, so I disrespect them back.
Maybe they hate me so I hate them back.
Maybe my father hated them so I am going to follow in his footsteps?
Maybe a common hate is a binding factor in my group.  Otherwise we would splinter.
(No positive thing ties us together.)

Usually, I think when we talk about Israel we are discovering inconsistencies in the normal narrative, that creates doubt of many of the justifications. We see killing on both sides, but all those justification break down. The doubt that we discover is already a kind of anti-Semitism. It is not necessarily a pre-existing prejudice, but it ends up with condemning something about Israel.

We already have some writings in our library on the Jewish question, emphasizing what is wrong. Even our post on the Talmud is difficult to swallow, although it is Jewish expressed philosophy, not an interpretation. I will look for balanced writings, that are not just based in myth. I want to look at anti-Semitism before the current Israel, even to the origins.

I have one scanned graphic file that claims to list the many times Jewish people were expelled from their city or country of residence. Most all examples have a listed source. The sources seem scholarly, early Christian texts, jewishvertuallibrary.org, wikipedia.org, jewishencyclopedia.com, many books, and even the Bible. I have a few books that I intend to read and report on, maybe I will find more. (Those that have "Exposing the Satanic Plot" in the title, I will skip.)

I will attach this list of expulsions below in as wide a format as may fit on your screen, because the print is small. But I hope you won't have to scroll side to side, to visualize the whole thing at once. (If it is too wide, please zoom down your browser page.)

First I will put an abbreviated time line of the "Palestinian Territory". Perhaps you can open this post on two separate pages, and locate the various expulsion (of anti-Semitism), on that part of the time line that says what was happening in the Israeli territory of today.

So, let’s jump into the timeline.

1020 BC — Modern archeologists believe that the Israel described in the Bible came into being around 1020 BC (or BCE). Scholars are divided on the Exodus story — some believe it and some insist that Israel emerged from indigenous tribes.

According to the Hebrew Bible, a “United Monarchy” (consisting of Israel and Judah) existed as early as the 11th century BCE, under the reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon; the country later split into two kingdoms: Israel, containing the cities of Shechem and Samaria in the north, and Judah (containing Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple) in the south. The historicity of the United Monarchy is debated—as there are no archaeological remains of it that are accepted as consensus—but historians and archaeologists agree that Israel and Judah existed as separate kingdoms by c. 900 BCE.

931 BC Kingdom of Israel

Kingdom of Israel — Lasted 211 years (931 to 722 BC). Last King, Hoshea, Reigned over Israel in Samaria for 9 years. King Shalmaneser attacked and captured Samaria. He charged Hoshea with treason and he put him in prison, then, he deported the Israelites to Assyria.

913 BC Kingdom of Judah

Kingdom of Judah — lasted 327 years (913 to 586). Last King, Zedekiah, Reigned for 11 years. His reign saw the second rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar (588–586 BC). Jerusalem was captured after a lengthy siege, the temple burnt, Zedekiah blinded and taken into exile, and Judah reduced to a province.

720 BC Assyria destroys Kingdom of Israel
587 BC Babylon pillages Jerusalem, destroys First Temple
538 BC Jews return to Jerusalem from Babylon

Jewish Reign After Return from Babylon — 206 years
332 BC Alexander the Great conquers the area

Greek Rule — 132 years
200 BC Judea conquered by the Seleucid Empire

Seleucid Rule — 33 years
167 BC Maccabean Revolt Restored Temple Worship (167 to 160 BC)

Rome ruled, in a variety of arrangements, from 64 BC until the Roman Empire split in 390 AD (aka CE).

Roman Rule — 454 years
64 BC Roman Pompey conquers Syria and restores Hyrcanus II as High Priest
6 AD Caesar Augustus made Judea a Roman Province
66 AD Start of Jewish Roman War
70 AD Second Temple destroyed
132 AD Bar Kochba Revolt
390 AD Split of the Roman Empire, Byzantine period begins

Byzantine Rule — 245 years
635 AD The Levant was conquered by an Arab army under the command of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in 635, and became the province of Bilad al-Sham of the Rashidun Caliphate.

First Arab Muslim Rule — 464 years
1099 AD First Crusade captures Jerusalem

Crusade Rule — 188 years
1187 AD Saladin takes Jerusalem peacefully

Saladin Rule — 57 years
1244 AD Jerusalem was sacked by the Khwarezmian Tatars 

Khwarezmian Tatars Rule — 3 years
1247 AD Khwarezmians were driven out by the Ayyubids

1248 AD Mamluks rule

Ayyubids/Mamluks Rule — 269 years
1516 AD conquered by Turkish Sultan Selim I 

Ottoman Rule — 401 years
1917 AD British vanquish Turks and take control of Israel

British Rule — 31 years

Israeli Rule — 1948 to present

HERE IS THE LIST OF EXPULSIONS

You may or may not want to look at them closely. But you get the idea; Jewish people were hated enough to drive them out. Most all of course were born there. (I don’t know why? You can make up some reasons.) I don’t know if these source materials are still live links?

This seems to be an impressive list. I do not know who compiled it, nor for what purpose.

Is it to show that some mystical hate force is against Jewishness? Or is it to demonstrate Jews have always done hateful things, and deserved to be expelled)? This is a mystery that would be great to get an understanding on. That is my intention.

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